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In reply to the discussion: And Then There Were Three: Third Grand Jury Refuser Goes to Prison [View all]Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)So you didn't mean what you wrote, fine everybody does it sometime.
The governed have been reduced to a choice of one of two choices provided by two parties both of which are owned and controlled by the same tiny minority, and no one that is not approved by the party has any realistic chance of even being heard, let alone elected. Eugene V. Debs was probably the last populist candidate to break through the authority of the parties, and they threw him in jail to stop him. Do you think that when Barack Obama had that conference after his DNC speech in 2004, he wasn't being vetted for his run in 2008? Do you imagine that Alan Greyson or Bernie Sanders could ever get the nomination for President?
Did you even read the description of a police state from Wikipedia?
You wrote; "in a police state everyone is all aware of what is happening all around them and they behave accordingly to maintain that routine nature of their lives." Have you ever lived in East LA, or whatever has replaced CabriniGreen, or any of the similar ghettos in every American city? Do you imagine that anyone there is not profoundly aware of what is happening all around them and what can happen to them at any time for any, or no, reason? Are you seriously not aware of completely innocent people that have been murdered in their own homes by the police with no consequences except, rarely, the cop might lose his job, if the press deigns to report it?
Your name implies that you are brown. Tell you what, why don't you try driving around in Gold Coast or Hyde Park @ 2:00 am in an old car, and then when you're pulled over for no reason at all you tell the nice policeman all about your rights as an American citizen. We'll be waiting for your report.